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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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But testimony of school officials against the Krals was decisive. They said nothing about the quality of either public-school teaching or Tommy's home instruction. They simply attested to Tommy's absence from school and recited the truancy law. Judge Sandeen's ruling: 30 days in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Cost of Quality | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Douglas' blast was the latest in a series of angry rumblings in Congress over the role of retired and resigned military men in business. Three weeks ago New York's Representative Alfred Santangelo offered a harsh amendment to the Administration's $39 billion military appropriations bill for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Ringing the Brass | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

A warm, romantic production of Much Ado About Nothing has got the Group 20 Players off to an impressive start in their seventh season. Their approach to the play is avowedly different from customary ones; and this approach took a good deal of courage.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Stanley Jay is drolly Pickwickian as the head-borough Verges. But Ralph Drischell has extracted little of the meat from the self-inflated, malapropistic Dogberry. Robert Evans fails to convey the villainy of Don John, who openly proclaims his evilness several times to the audience; he is nothing worse than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

The biggest disappointment is the Mercutio of William Smithers, who has proven himself a good actor elsewhere. Here he is a total failure; and much of the blame must fall on director Landau. Not for nothing does Mercutio share five letters with Mercury; but there is nothing mercurial about Smithers...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Romeo and Juliet | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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